Electronic Identification of the Parental Phases and Mesoscopic Phase Separation of K xFe 2-ySe 2 Superconductors

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Chen, F ^a   Xu, M ^a   Ge, Q Q ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Ye, Z R ^a   Yang, L X ^a   Jiang, Juan ^a   Xie, B P ^a   Che, R C ^a   Zhang, M ^b   Wang, A F ^b   Chen, X H ^b   Shen, D W ^c   Hu, J P ^d   Feng, D L ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed Matter Physics; Strongly Correlated Materials; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; CUPRATES; INSULATING PHASIS; IRON-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; IRON-PNICTIDE; MESOSCOPICS; MOTT INSULATORS; PARENT COMPOUNDS; SPIN-DENSITY-WAVE ORDER; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INSULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84857583448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021020     Document Type: Article

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